© Harm-Jan Stiepel
The participants, as well as the motors, varied in age and style. Men and women geared in leather or dressed in more modern motorcycle clothing, drove on sports motorbikes, touring machines and cruisers. We were soon immersed in a varied landscape, small roads between charming villages and fine Hanseatic cities like Hasselt and Zwolle. We went over dikes along meandering rivers and straight canals and even the motor tourists had to cross two rivers (Zwarte Water and IJssel) by boat. For some of us the ferry was a new experience.
After the lunch in the small village called Herxen, we visited the American Motorcycle Museum in Raalte. The highest point of the route was on the Holterberg (berg is Dutch for mountain and 60 m above sea level is high is the Netherlands) where our photographer made the last photos of our tour.